"Ten years ago, when we were twenty-two, we were out there hanging out with a few other friends of ours when we were attacked by Wild Ones. Hundreds of them at once. Till today, I have never seen them attack in such a large pack before." His voice grave, his eyes reflected the painful memories, "We were only eight Alphas. But we fought them as much as we could. Three of our friends died in that battle. Josiah was gonna die too but our mother ran into the warzone like a mother hen.""She found out we've dissapeared from the house, so she traced our scent to the Cave of Hemar, only to stumble upon the bloody fight. Mother saved both our lives, but she died there." He swallowed tightly, "Our father blamed us for her death, but Josiah took the greater mass of his anger. I tried to tell him that Josiah didn't force me to go with him to that cave, but he never believed I went willingly. We've been hanging out there for five years. No one forced me. But it was easier for him to point fingers
After Alfred woke up, and the two alphas recovered from the shock and the excitement of seeing the man awake, Wolfaraine went ahead to dismiss Degar. "I want to speak with him alone." He said. "Of course," Degar inclined his head before turning towards the door. "Get the conference hall ready for the tournament tomorrow. Send your sentinel to the Elephant's Clan to know if it's Rodarh or Onaries that is going to be at the three-day fiesta with us. I will see you tomorrow, Degar." "I will do as you said.""Oh, and Degar?" "Yes, Alpha King?" "Tell Maximus, your Head Sentinel, that his wife has conceived. Her scent has taken on a distinctive smell of citrus." "Really!?" Degar's eyes widened to saucers. Maximus's only daughter is six years old. He and his mate, Nini, has been trying for five years now. "I know it's not wise to question your sense of smell...but are you really sure...?" A wry smile crossed Wolfaraine's face, "Since Maximus himself hasn't smelled it, I guess she jus
On his way back to his bedroom, he deviated and went to Nalaila's dungeon room. With his sister's progress, he has become sure that his sister will never hurt innocent people, so he and Ismena are already working to get another room ready for her. One without bars and locks. He has always hated seeing her behind these bars but his sense of duty to keep his people safe had always overrode his protectiveness of his sister. Guilt assailed him as he watched the rise and fall of her furry body as she sleeps. Closing the door behind him, he walked soundlessly to one side of the room and lowered himself to the floor with his back pressing again the wall. He sat there, watching her sleep. He lost himself in the thought of the past, the good part of the past, the time way before their captivity when Nalaila was all play, all smile and all...mortal form. She will be twenty-nine next month. What will she look like as a twenty-eight-year-old female? His sister was just a beautiful girl
Time dissolved around them as they lost themselves in the frenzied passion of being in each other's arms. When her eyes opened again, she noticed that the furs holding her has changed color to the tawny, silvery-grey of the mountain lion. The cougar?Spreading her legs wider, he slammed into her over and over again until her vagina walls quaked and rippled around his massive length. His head lowered, his teeth gripping the sensitive area between shoulder and neck as she screamed out as she was shoved into a climax so intense that all she saw was darkness.Her climax was blinding, it ripped through her body like a ravaging beast. She couldn't breathe, she could only convulse against him as his teeth bit into the sensitive skin even harder, adding a sharp, stinging pain to her pleasure and driving her into madness. In between her vortex of ecstasy, she noticed that he was back in his male form again. "You're so sweet, Ena. Take it, take me. Hell, too tight, so perfect. Too hot..."
***Four Weeks Later***"Are you sure you don't want to have breakfast? If you lose the tiniest bit of weight before the Alpha King comes back, I will be in so much trouble, Rahinna. Please, have breakfast." Mirian said in concern.Ismena swallowed down another wave of nausea before she gave the older woman a reassuring smile. "I'm fine, Mirian. I just don't feel like having breakfast.""You've not felt like having breakfast for some time now." The older woman muttered."Some days are like that, Mirian. It's probably because I didn't get enough sleep last night, and I'm feeling dizzy now. Once I sleep, I'll be so much better."Mirian hesitated, "I know you're missing the Alpha King, but he will be back soon. Stop losing sleep over it, Rahinna. I'm sure the Alpha King will not like it when he finds out."Ismena didn't say anything to that. She indeed misses Wolfaraine so much, but she wasn't sure Mirian understood just how much she was craving for him. She misses him to the depth of her
Time drifted away slowly after that, as they walked in silence."When are you planning to tell Josiah about Kassandra?" Wolfaraine asked, breaking the silence.Alphose stiffened beside him. He pursed his lips, a muscle ticked on his forehead."Stop postponing it already, Alphose. The more you do that, the more it will hurt. If she was your mate, she would have taken on your scent by now. You know what I do. I know you do. Put yourself out of your misery and allow that girl to reunite with her mate."Alphose swallowed tightly. "It's not going to hurt any less.""It's not. But your healing process will begin then. For now, you are just drawing out the pain." Wolfaraine turned to him, "Your own mate will come. I am sorry this happened to you."The cougar Alpha averted his eyes, "How sure are we that Josiah will come back to Naturiah because of this? Because of her? He has been away for the past ten years, dammit.""You will never know until you tell him. He deserves to know. He deserves
Author short note: We are nearing the end of our journey. ..."Werewolf Alpha and Head Sentinel, Adanel? Do you think it's him?" Degar referred to Alphose."Thinking about it, it seems much more likely to be him. The male barely talks. He was among the Wolves that were kidnapped eighteen years ago and experimented on. He was very strong to survive it, but I feel like there's something almost...feral in his eyes." Degar expressed calculatingly."Not to mention that his mate died. He has every reason to become a killer. He is the Wild Psychopath!" Alphose yelled, enraged, "Let's go get that motherfucker and torture him the changeling way until he tells the truth!"Degar glanced at Wolfaraine, "What do you think, Alpha King? Should we go and capture him? He has to pay for everything he has done!"Adanel. Everything in Wolfaraine denied that knowledge. It is not Adanel. It cannot be, he roared inwardly in denial.They walked out of hell together, the both of them. He was the reason Ada
She is missing. She is missing. Ismena is missing. My woman is missing.Over and over again, these words rang in Wolfaraine's head. It sounded unreal. It seems like a dream.His head thrown back, he let out an ear-splitting roar. As he roared, his beasts roared too. Tension corded his whole body, and his eyes were a whirlwind of colors. Amber. Blue. Green. Green and amber. Green, blue, and amber. "Alpha King, Alpha King, you have to calm down, Alpha King, please." It was Alphose's desperate voice, but Wolfaraine could barely hear him. The Alpha King took off in a dead run into the tower. Alphose, Adanel, and Degar ran after him, worried about their Alpha King. He practically flew up the stairs, throwing the doors open one after the other, shouting Ismena's name. Alphose has never seen him this angry, this desperate, this afraid. His mate never answered back, but the Alpha King did not stop shouting her name until he had thrown open all the doors at the east wing of the Tower.Isme
When the full moon eventually came, screams from two women in two different parts of Naturiah were particularly high in the air because two couples were getting mated. One from the Cougar Clan, the other from the Heart of Naturiah.In the Cougar Clan, Alphose held his woman close as he gave her all that was him. She has never taken all his forms before, but tonight she was going to before the mating ritual is performed. Her sweaty body shook under his, and he could smell her fear too. He whispered words of love and encouragement to her ears as he filled her body from behind yet again and began thrusting again.They were in their bedroom, kneeling on the floor with Kassandra's upper body lying on the bed and Alphose's own blanketing hers from behind. They've been at it all night. She has lost count of how many times she has released. At this rate, her soul was going to leave her body. Alphose was the best lover she'd ever been with—hell, even the word 'best' does not do him justice. G
"I love you too, baby." He rose with her in his arms, withdrew a gold ring from his pocket, and slipped it into her ring finger. "It's so beautiful..." She cried, staring reverently at the sparkling jewelry. "It looks so good on you," he whispered to her. That night, they made passionate love together. As always he took his time arousing her body, touching her everywhere until she begged him desperately to join them intimately before he proceeded to do just that. They created the perfect rhythm together, moving sensuously and whispering words of love to each other. Wolfaraine took his time making her go wild in pleasure in his arms, he savored the cries, the litany, the sounds he drew from her as they pleasured each other for hours. Afterward, they lay together, sated and happy. He caressed her belly, cradling their child as Ismena burrowed closer to him. "I'm so glad that it was my father that helped us escape. We were victorious because of him." She played with the soft hairs
The next day, Onaries was publicly executed in the square at the Heart Of Naturiah, before the people. Crowds gathered to watch it and it gave them great satisfaction to see the shame, the humiliation on the psycho's face before he was beheaded. To Onaries, it was the worst punishment. He should have killed himself when the lab was invaded—it was better to die in battle than to be killed by public execution where the people get to laugh at him, spit on his face and call him names. He'd been tortured for days by his own Head Sentinel, Rodarh who took great pleasure from the act. He tortured Onaries until he lost his pride and begged to be killed. But Onaries, that monster, had denied him. Until today when he was publicly executed. As for the human doctor, Beloca; Alphose, and Degar had taken turns beating the man up, they carved his skin out of his own body, his screams like music to their eyes. They tortured Beloca to an extent that he stopped breathing several times, but they did
"Nothing, Miss Kassandra; I only forced your dormant hormones to come alive. My 'attempted claim' on you forced your body to wake and take on your mate's scent." He smiled a little, "Now, you practically stink of him." Sandra doesn't understand. "Him?" She asked, confused. "The Steele trying to break down that door, ma'am. You are his mate. There was a time you were very sick, right? To the extent you thought you might die, right?" Sandra doesn't need to think hard about that. "Yes, when I was very young, I suffered pneumonia." He nodded knowingly, "Whatever drugs humans used to cure you suppressed your hormones that made you a potential mate. So deeply suppressed that they wouldn't have stirred if you hadn't met your lifemate, my twin brother, and I wouldn't have been able to awake them if I didn't push as hard as I did. I'm sorry for hurting you, lass." The man wasn't as bad as she thought he was, Sandra thought, and some of her fears dissolved. Instead, joy began spreading thr
When Ismena heard the news about Alphose and Kassandra, she left the Tower and went back to Eline's house to be with her best friend. Sandra cried on her shoulders, dreading every hour that passed, every ticking of the clock because it was a reminder that Josiah was already on his way to Naturiah to claim her. She told Ismena that she didn't wanna do it. She just wants to go back to the human world. It's better to go home to live the rest of her life alone than to be with a man who isn't her Alphose. Although it killed Ismena to do it, she talked her out of it. How will she live the rest of her life knowing that she could have met her soulmate? She could have been with him, but she gave up on it? She talked her into giving Josiah a chance. After all, who knows? It might be the best decision she has ever made in her life, right? The Alpha King, on the other hand, could only pat his best friend's shoulder, commending him for doing the right thing even when the 'right thing' hurts. B
He smiled, "She is. Do you remember all your time together with her?""Oh yes. She is my best friend.""She will be so happy to hear that. It'll probably make her cry. She thinks of you that way too. Maybe even more.""I want her to stay with us forever. You're going to mate her, right?" "Yes, I will. If she will have me." Wolfaraine stated matter-of-factly. He has no doubt anymore. He wants to spend the rest of his life with Ismena. In fact, he cannot imagine his future without her in it."I'm glad. I hope she will have you, too. We will be one big family. She is so brave. She's everything you need in a mate. She always came by my room, all the time, no matter how scared she was. She came every day. I knew you two fought when she didn't come by for a few days. I was mad at you because you let her go.""Is that way you growled whenever I came close? I thought perhaps you hated me.""I never. I was just mad at you, madder, because I couldn't tell you how I felt. I'm happy you two sort
He walked into the room, quietly closing the door behind him, and took a few minutes to just stand there and watch them. The two most important women in his life. He felt lighter and refreshed, his heart filled with happiness like he'd never known before. How his life has changed in the past few months. He'd resigned himself to a bland life filled with guilt, sadness, and loneliness, never taking a mate, never having a child of his own, and living day by day with the fear of not knowing when he would lose his sister forever. But Ismena came into his life and changed it forever.He'd felt more in the past six months than he has in almost twenty years. The past no longer fills him with rage and sadness, his cougar wasn't as rough and out-of-control as before. He has a mate who is so highly compatible with him, his child is growing in her belly, and his sister, who he thought was lost forever was back to him again.Complete. He feels complete."What are you thinking so hard about?" Ism
Gasps of disbelief filled the air. The people were shocked and excited. They found it hard to believe that their King's sister—someone who they'd all given up on—would take her mortal form again after all these years. Murmurs rose in the crowd, bits and pieces of them could be heard audibly."Did you see that—" A voice said."What just happened!?" Another added."She took her mortal form again...!" "Bless the Lord!""May the deities be praised...!""Did you see that too?""...thought it'll never happen for her.""It's been eighteen years."Wolfaraine Daminor Throne stood frozen. He glanced down at the small, pale, feminine hand in his larger one. His eyes trailed from her hand to her arm, up to her shoulder, her neck, and her teary face. His throat constricted at the sight in front of him.She was more beautiful than the distorted image his mind had desperately held onto all these years. His sister was ten the last time he saw her face. His eyes watered as he gazed into eyes as blue
All the leading Alphas of Naturiah were there, the sentinels, the Betas, the Omegas, the houseworkers. He could see Eline, Mirian, and Kassandra too, even the Alphas that fought with him in the human world earlier in the day. They were all gathered there. They rose and greeted him respectfully when he walked through the door with his mate in his arm.Then they were crowding him. The joy and relief on their faces, filled his heart with love for his people. The females had tears in their eyes as they came really close to him. Some were hugging him, while the others were kneeling at his feet—a gesture of welcome and respect. They were all careful not to press tightly against him because of the woman in his arms. Ismena wiggled a bit, a sign that she wanted to be on her own feet, but Wolfaraine glanced at her and shook his head slightly."Please, I'll be careful, and I'll be right here by your side." she pleaded, a hint of her smile on her face. She knows how badly his people wanted to g